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They asked for melting chocolate cake, topped with chocolate fudge and cream, and for marshmallow mountain, three scoops of creme caramel ice cream, covered in butterscotch sauce and topped with marshmallows.

If a woman fudges on her income tax, how can you be sure that she is not fudging on the results of her sociological experiments, or picking and choosing the results which corroborate her theories?

Disputing the official version that an average two or three lions are poisoned to death each year, he believes the forest department figures are fudged.

Certainly one can distort the truth without fudging figures or Photoshopping images, simply by clever juxtaposition.

The government, which often fudges numbers, doesn't want you to know the truth, just as your parents shielded you from many of life's unpleasantries.

And how does crime compare, even with these fudged statistics, with what it was in the 1970's and 1980's?

But if you don't feel comfortable with such blatant figure fudging, you can tinker with the words.

That's why I respect him so much - he gave an honest answer, rather than trying to fudge up data to support his desires, as do many, many figures on both the left and the right.

There's a clever way in which companies fudge and fiddle with their earnings figures, and you should know about it.

But it'll never be done by 2005, which will mean that managers will again spent too much time fudging performance figures and not enough get the system right.

According to media reports, the corporation has been accused of fudging facts and figures regarding funds that were used for reconstruction and rehabilitation.

And a lie from the White House - or a fib or a misrepresentation or a fudged number - can go a long way toward distorting the national discussion.

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(concoct)

(excuse/alibi)fabricar

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(evade)

(issue)esquivar

Some have claimed that this is fudging the issue, and that they have set in a committee where it will wither and die.

Once again it would appear that he is trying to fudge the issue.

However, critics say the G8 has fudged many issues and put national self-interest before the international common good.

They're fudging the issue and if they don't tackle this head on, they will be seen to shield those who commit heinous crimes on children.

They would like to fudge the issue by conflating it with questions about how the war was prosecuted.

Trying to fudge the issue will only invite China's bullying and eventual invasion.

The problem which besets all mergers and acquisitions is the lack of clarity, with management issues being fudged.

So why does the council leaflet apparently fudge the issue by talking of education while not letting on that the education in question is of the private variety?

The law she never fudges: ‘You've got to say what you mean and mean what you say.’

Whenever awareness-raising is put forward as a solution, I smell an issue being fudged.

Opposition to GE is strong in Thailand, but the Government there has fudged the issue, having just cancelled approval of GE crops that would have ended a three-year regulatory ban.

He does however still fudge the truth question somewhat in his analogy with writing.

As they did not insist on punishing the guilty, his supporters could take recourse to the ambiguities in political procedures to fudge the issue of criminal responsibility altogether.

The court's message to universities and other selective, government-financed institutions is: We have fudged this dangerous issue.

Anyone who comes before her court who has failed to behave well - whether by ignoring a contract or just fudging the truth - can expect the fourth degree, often followed by a dose of withering sarcasm or outright scorn.

So the obvious interpretation of his comments is that he used the suggestion of one association for Britain as a means of fudging the issue.

If you look at the way science fiction writers deal with this - well, most of them just fudge the whole issue.

A good lawyer might fudge the issue for his client - not sufficiently to get him off the hook, but sufficiently to suggest that he honestly felt himself justified in making a second marriage.

When a big issue is on, do we want someone who might be prepared to fudge the realities of truth in order to meet his or her own ends?

The conventional wisdom is that the church fudges issues such as child abuse in order to hold on to power.